Cejas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ANDREW A. CEJAS, Case No.: 14-CV-1923-WQH(WVG)

Plaintiff,

REPORT AND

v. RECOMMENDATION RE:

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO STRIKE

AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES

DANIEL PARAMO et al., [Doc. No. 97.] Defendants. Plaintiff moves to strike all thirteen affirmative defenses in Defendants’ Answer to the First Amended Complaint. This Court RECOMMENDS that Plaintiff’s motion to strike be DENIED in its entirety. I. BACKGROUND On May 17, 2018, Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint with leave of Court. (Doc. No. 59.) Defendants filed an Answer on May 10, 2019 after motion practice, which resulted in the Court granting-in-part a motion to dismiss. (Doc. No. 90.) The Answer contains thirteen affirmative defenses along with responses to the factual and preamble paragraphs from the First Amended Complaint. Plaintiff in turn, filed a “response” in the form of a motion to “strike…